Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-08-27
DAKOTA.

DUH.
Minnehaha county will have no fair this
year.
Dell Rapids is t. have a tow mil costing
So, 600.
spesrHsh was inundated by a water spout
last Sunday.
1t raincd i've successive days In the region
of Watertown.
Volga will have an elevator OF the capacity
OF 1904 600 bushels.
WATERFOWL has defeated fergus Falls,
Mimi, at base ball.
The Masops Of Deadwood will erect a TEN.
Pile costing S2l 900.
The First National bank OF Sturgis has be-
come a reserve bank.
The agricultural college at Brookings has
an enrolment Of 256 students.
Dakota's assessment for 1887 Is over $780,
10000 against 1892, 600, 900 in 1856.
AT Msndan the jury acquitted the Indian
boy Brighter Of the charge Of murder.
The Milwaukee company contemplate To-
eating a division at Madison, and build q ten
stall engine house.
At Watertown there are serious apprehen.
sions as to wheat In shock. There has been
so much rain that 1t Is commencing to sprout.
Central Dekota has been visited ky heavy
rains. BY signal service measurement two
inches Of water fell in a recent ctorm at Hn.
ron.
Chief Engineer Miller, Of the Manitoba,
was in Huron on Tuesday looking ever the
recent surveys on the Duluth, WATERFOWL and
Pacific.
The Black Hills farmers are still busy with
their harvest, and seem to be much better sat
lsied over the prospect than they were a few
weeks ago.
The Huronite published Monday four col
umns OF the contempt case,' giving a his
tory OF its rise and fall. 1t promises not TO
al!ude TO 1t again.
As the Aberdeen postofice has h.'come a
second-class one, 1t must now go into a brick
or stone building, and there is considerable
excitement over its relocation.
Secretary Blu hnell, of the Dakota terri.
torial fair, is making an effort to have John
Sherman make an address at the fair at
Mitchell.
The wild hay crop around Arlington is
very large this year, aud great quantities are
being put up. One firm has contracted for
1000 tons.
Judge Palmer will hold court at Huron
August II, to hear motions In the Fifth dis
trlct in place of Judge Spencer, who is how
in New York.
Glow Women May re Pretty" is one Of the
articles in the last number of Conklin's Ds-
kotaian, a slight deviation from the Judges
anti-monopoly text.
Col. VI. w. Sheafe, a friend Of Gov. Church,
says the governor did not believe the trustees
guilty and would not prosecute them, tut
thought they ought to resign.
Reports have been received ort Thomy
: n that the Duluth, Watertown and Pacific
abroad has a surveying party en- route TO
that point via Watertown and Woolsey.
Many elm trees about the city are dying
and all shade trees are parting with their
the leaves to fall, says the YanktDn Press.
Burglars effs cted an entrance into three
hotels and several stores at Redaeld Sunday
night. One travelling man lost Fl, 5000 In
money, notes, mileage tickets and clothing.
"a Brookings man bought a tree claim
$3.50, on which he has already cut 800 tons
OF hay, for which he has been offered "a per
ton.
The receipts at the assay Office in New York
OF Dakota gold bullion was during last year
81, 500, 020. 40, of silver S422,5S1. Dividends
declared during 1886 by the mining companies
were s732, 900.
Thrashing has begun in the vicinity of
Mitchell, and wheat and oats are yielding
better than was expected. The former will
average eighteen bushels and the latter forty
five to the acre.
An alteration occurred between Marshal
Barry and Samuel Mitchell. of Elkpoint, on
Tuesday, in which the latter stabbed the mar
shall with 3 pocket knife aud his dath was
expected during the night.
Aud now President Bliss, Of the Dakota
boaid OF agriculture, will invite President
Cleveland to attend the territorial fsir az
Mitchell and make IN address over the big
pumpkins and other produce Of Dakota.
The regular contractor ola NOT arrive or
TINE at Fort B nnctt, SO the issue clerk came
20 Pierre and purchased 2010 pounds of
granulate1 sugar and 5 0 pounds Of collector
the Indians, just TO tide them over a day.
Dat OF 25S persons admitted 10 tue Sioux
FATS pcnitenti2ry during the last quadrennial
period 2t5 we're addicted e the use Of liquor.
This was a confession Of the prisoners thtm.
selves, only forty-tEree claiming to b. sb-
s~tainers.
Union county has two insane people In It's
county jsl. The YaDkton asylum is full and
the additional wing for which $50, 600 was APP
propriated Is not being built. In several
counties these unfortuc ates are being com.
mitted TO the jaIls.
Gov. Church last week wrote a personal let
Ter to the president inviting him to visit Da
kota. 1t was h!s .u.sestiCn that II the presi-
dealt visits Omaha he could easily come 10
Sioux City and then go Up through Dakota 10
the Northern Pacific.
The men who were arrested for catching
frsh in the jim river with seines and who
Jumped their bail are back at their Illegal
work again. They defy the authorities and
threaten the ~neighbors with destruction II
any complaints are made.
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